Pia Frankenberg

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Pia Frankenberg, in Hamburg in the early 1980s

Pia Frankenberg (born October 27, 1957 in Cologne ) is a German film director , film producer and book author .

Life

Pia Frankenberg was born in 1957 in Cologne as the daughter of Marie-Louise Steinbauer and the cosmetics company Frankenberg. When their parents divorced after just one year, their daughter grew up with her father, who died in 1974 in the crash of Lufthansa flight 540 in Nairobi. She spent her childhood in Rhöndorf am Rhein.

After graduating from high school, she moved to Hamburg, began training as an actor at the state university for music and performing arts and worked in various independent theater groups. In 1979 she founded Pia Frankenberg Musik- und Filmproduktion, participated as a co-producer in Luc Bondy's Die Ortliebschen Frauen and was awarded the Federal Film Prize for this .

In the following years, Pia Frankenberg worked in various functions with directors such as Vadim Glowna , Ulrike Ottinger , Thomas Koerfer and Hans Neuenfels .

In 1981, Pia Frankenberg became a member of the Hamburger Filmbüros , the first self-administered film funding system for filmmakers, and shot her first short film Sehnsucht nach dem der Entlichen Other with Elisabeth Stepanek in the lead role. Another short film followed in 1984, The Attack , which ran successfully at the Berlinale. A year later she made her feature film debut Not nothing without you , in which she took on the lead role and was responsible for the script, direction and production. Not nothing without you received the Max Ophüls Prize for the best German-speaking young talent in 1986 and was shown at the Venice International Film Festival . In 1988 the arthouse hit Brennende Betten followed with Ian Dury and in 1992 Never Sleep Again with Lisa Kreuzer, among others, which premiered at the Munich Film Festival .

In the same year Pia Frankenberg founded the production company Next Film with her then husband Laurens Straub , with which they produced, among other things, The Trio by Hermine Huntgeburth with Götz George in the lead role and Fisimatents by Jochen Kuhn as well as various ARTE themed evenings.

From 1994 Pia Frankenberg concentrated on her literary work and in 1996 she published Die Kellner und I at Rowohlt , a novel about a Rhenish childhood during the German economic miracle, about which the magazine Focus wrote: “Thank God, this book is nothing Holy. ”This was followed by the novels Klara und die Liebe zum Zoo (2001), Nora (2006) and The Last Rotation (2009) as well as various short stories.

Her film Never Again Sleep (1992), a wandering gaze of three women exploring Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was invited to the Berlinale side series "Retrospective" in 2019.

Pia Frankenberg was married to the photographer Elliott Erwitt for a few years and has lived mainly in New York City since 1995 . She has lived in Berlin since 2011 . She is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography

  • 1981: Longing for the very different (short film)
  • 1984: The attack (short film)
  • 1986: Not nothing without you
  • 1988: Burning beds
  • 1992: Never sleep again
  • 2000: Fisimatenten (production only)

Novels

Awards

  • German Film Award 1980
  • Max Ophüls Prize 1986 for Not nothing without you
  • Audience Award at the Festival of Film Comedy in Vevey for Burning Beds (1988)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pia Frankenberg. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Berlinale 2019 - Retrospective: Never Sleep Again. In: berlinale.de. Berlin International Film Festival , accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ Pia Frankenberg. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Frankenberg, Pia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne